Amber miners blocked the road in Ukraine

About two hundred Ukrainian diggers amber blocked in the Volyn region the route "Kyiv - Kovel - state border with Poland" demanding to be let into places of illegal production of the " sun stone ", is notified on the Internet representation of the TV channel on Wednesday.

Illegal extraction of amber local residents have long flourished in Rivne, Zhytomyr regions and other Central-Western regions of Ukraine. The problem before was the head of the country Petro Poroshenko, which in July asked in a persistent form from law enforcement to establish the optimal stopping smuggling of amber. Along with this, environmental experts emphasize that Illegal mining and smuggling of amber in Ukraine leads to the destruction of ecology and turns the waste places of the production of the "sun stone" in practice in a lifeless desert, unfit For further use.

"now on a place of event gathered About 200 people in 20 vehicles that are trying to get to the forest for illegal mining of amber